“A library is a miracle. A place where you can learn just about anything, for free. A place where your mind can come alive.”
Josh Hanagarne,
The World’s Strongest Librarian:
A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
Tenacity
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
The Past
For the more haunted among us, only looking back at the past can permit it finally to become past.
-Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir
Plans
“One possible reason why things aren’t going according to plan is that there never was a plan.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Don’t Destroy Your Health
The man who earns a million but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
— Zig Ziglar
Demagoguery
“Hamilton’s besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.”
― Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
The Bear View 